load text from .txt into praat info window

Question

I would like to read the information from a text file in the praat window. I can "echo" text to the window with:

writeInfoLine: "Hello World"
appendInfoLine: "Goodbye"

But what I don't know how to do is to do the same thing if I have

"Hello World"
"Goodbye"

saved to a simple .txt file

I want to load the content of this file into the Praat Info window and save it to another .txt

Answer 1

You can read plain text into a Strings object and then manipulate the strings depending on your needs.

Read Strings from raw text file: "text.txt"
numberOfStrings = Get number of strings

for stringNumber from 1 to numberOfStrings
     string$ = Get string: stringNumber
     appendInfoLine: string$
endfor

You can use appenFileLine: "output.txt", string$ to write to a text file.